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Neil Chilson

@neil_chilson
59 posts
2026-03-01
In the reactions to this post, I see a lot of people concerned with the state of the current law on surveillance. I share those deep concerns. I am surprised, however, by how many people want to address those concerns by having the CEO of a private corporation set the rules.
2026-03-01 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI says its DOD agreement upholds its redlines and “has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic's”

We think our agreement has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic's.

In the reactions to this post, I see a lot of people concerned with the state of the current law on surveillance. I share those deep concerns. I am surprised, however, by how many people want to address those concerns by having the CEO of a private corporation set the rules.
2026-03-01 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: the Pentagon used Claude in its major air attack in Iran, hours after Trump declared that the federal government will end its use of Anthropic's tools

Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic …

In the reactions to this post, I see a lot of people concerned with the state of the current law on surveillance. I share those deep concerns. I am surprised, however, by how many people want to address those concerns by having the CEO of a private corporation set the rules.
2026-03-01 View on X
The Atlantic

Source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic's AI to analyze bulk data collected about Americans

Right up until the moment that Pete Hegseth moved to terminate the government's relationship with the AI company Anthropic …

2026-02-27
Just FYI, this is the Department of War language that Anthropic doesn't want in their contracts. I've seen a lot of people say “if Anthropic's red lines are already unlawful, then why doesn't DoW just agree to them?” You could just as well say, “if the DoW only wants lawful [image]
2026-02-27 View on X
Axios

President Trump calls Anthropic a “radical left, woke company” and says he is directing every federal agency in the US to stop using its products

The Trump administration has decided to blacklist Anthropic in the most consequential and controversial policy decision to date …

Just FYI, this is the Department of War language that Anthropic doesn't want in their contracts. I've seen a lot of people say “if Anthropic's red lines are already unlawful, then why doesn't DoW just agree to them?” You could just as well say, “if the DoW only wants lawful [image]
2026-02-27 View on X
Anthropic

Dario Amodei says Anthropic cannot “in good conscience” accede to DOD's request to remove safeguards and will work to ensure a smooth transition if offboarded

I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries.

2026-02-13
Anthropic's announcement of a $20 million political spend to regulate AI has a strong taste of the smugness too common in the AI x-risk community. It suggests that anyone who disagrees with Anthropic's policy positions simply doesn't understand what is at stake. [image]
2026-02-13 View on X
New York Times

Anthropic donates $20M to Public First, a super PAC pushing for AI guardrails and transparency in opposition to OpenAI-backed PACs, ahead of the US midterms

2026-02-12
Anthropic's announcement of a $20 million political spend to regulate AI has a strong taste of the smugness too common in the AI x-risk community. It suggests that anyone who disagrees with Anthropic's policy positions simply doesn't understand what is at stake. [image]
2026-02-12 View on X
New York Times

Anthropic donates $20M to Public First, a super PAC pushing for AI guardrails and transparency in opposition to OpenAI-backed PACs, ahead of the US midterms

Anthropic and OpenAI now have their own well-funded political groups that will square off in the midterm elections over artificial intelligence safety and regulation.

2026-02-05
As a former FTC enforcer and something of an expert in deceptive advertising and the value of advertising, I find these ads infuriatingly misleading...by portraying advertising as inherently dystopian, they miss the point entirely...Anthropic is mocking ad-supported services in an ad that will be watched by millions of football-loving Americans who can watch the Super Bowl for free—precisely because of advertising.
2026-02-05 View on X
Anthropic

Anthropic says “Claude will remain ad-free”, its users “won't see ‘sponsored’ links adjacent to” conversations, and responses won't be influenced by advertisers

There are many good places for advertising.  A conversation with Claude is not one of them.

As a former FTC enforcer and something of an expert in deceptive advertising and the value of advertising, I find these ads infuriatingly misleading...by portraying advertising as inherently dystopian, they miss the point entirely...Anthropic is mocking ad-supported services in an ad that will be watched by millions of football-loving Americans who can watch the Super Bowl for free—precisely because of advertising.
2026-02-05 View on X
@sama

Sam Altman says Anthropic's Super Bowl ads are funny but “dishonest”, and Anthropic serves a “product to rich people” while OpenAI is “committed to free access”

First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed. But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for a...

2025-12-13
The final EO is very similar in structure to the draft leaked two weeks ago. But it is rhetorically less polarizing and legally more watertight. The FTC provision remains of great interest to me, both because of my background and because it is very creative. The legislative
2025-12-13 View on X
Axios

Policymakers behind key state AI bills scoff at Trump's EO; some GOP governors are pushing ahead with their own AI bills; Steve Bannon says Sacks misled Trump

States are forging ahead with AI laws despite President Trump's new executive order aimed at reining them in.

The final EO is very similar in structure to the draft leaked two weeks ago. But it is rhetorically less polarizing and legally more watertight. The FTC provision remains of great interest to me, both because of my background and because it is very creative. The legislative
2025-12-13 View on X
Reuters

President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying “we want to have one central source of approval”

Transformer Weekly: Trump signs EO, Hochul guts the RAISE Act, and GPT-5.2 launches Michael Kan / PCMag : Trump Signs Executive Order to Go After ‘Burdensome’ State AI Laws Poligir...

2025-12-12
The final EO is very similar in structure to the draft leaked two weeks ago. But it is rhetorically less polarizing and legally more watertight. The FTC provision remains of great interest to me, both because of my background and because it is very creative. The legislative
2025-12-12 View on X
Reuters

President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying “we want to have one central source of approval”

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order on artificial intelligence that will attempt to preempt …

2024-11-18
Congrats, @BrendanCarrFCC! Carr had a persuasive dissent on the FCC's ill-advised proposed “Disclosure Rules for the Use of AI in Political Ads.” I look forward to having that intellectual firepower setting the FCC agenda.
2024-11-18 View on X
Status

Q&A with The Verge EIC Nilay Patel on a likely FCC Chair Brendan Carr, Elon Musk's alliance with Donald Trump and how it threatens the First Amendment, and more

“All of these men are now hopelessly trapped in a problem their own platforms and algorithms created.”

2024-08-27
@elonmusk Hey Elon, you know those consent orders that the @FTC is using to harass you? SB 1047 looks just like them, and could be misused the same way: [image]
2024-08-27 View on X
@elonmusk

Elon Musk says that, “all things considered, I think California should probably pass the SB 1047 AI safety bill”, and saying so is “a tough call”

Always B — Be C — Ctalking your book Alex Konrad / @alexrkonrad : this will create some interesting divided loyalties in Silicon Valley 👀 Sean Durkin / @seandurkinsf : @DanHendryck...

2024-07-24
Why are FTC & DOJ issuing statements w/ EU competition authorities discussing “risks” in the blazingly competitive, U.S.-built AI ecosystem? And on the same day that Meta turbocharges disruptive innovation with the first-ever frontier-level open source AI model? A 🧵 [image]
2024-07-24 View on X
Bloomberg

Meta debuts Llama 3.1 405B, the “first frontier-level open source AI model”, as well as new Llama 3.1 70B and 8B models, and says it's working on Llama 4

Why are FTC & DOJ issuing statements w/ EU competition authorities discussing “risks” in the blazingly competitive, U.S.-built AI ecosystem? And on the same day that Meta turbocharges disruptive innovation with the first-ever frontier-level open source AI model? A 🧵 [image]
2024-07-24 View on X
Meta

Mark Zuckerberg argues that “open source AI” is the path forward, closed models are vulnerable to vendor lock-in and state-backed espionage, and more

RE: https://www.threads.net/... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : You can find @zuck's full post here https://www.facebook.com/... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Mark Zuckerberg has...

2024-07-02
The Internet survives! [image]
2024-07-02 View on X
CBS News

SCOTUS orders lower courts to take another look at Texas' and Florida's social media laws, saying neither lower court conducted proper analysis of 1A challenges

The First Amendment was written in the 18th century … The Hill : Morning Report — Is a Trump election interference trial off the table? CCIA : Supreme Court Issues Ruling in CCIA, ...

2024-03-27
@LouisAnslow Zuck did the ol' “Let Me Google That For You.” #LMGTFY [image]
2024-03-27 View on X
Politico

A look at the international battles to regulate AI, as nations, lobbyists, and tech companies vie for influence over the future of AI policy

Inside the shadowy global battle to tame the world's most dangerous technology  —  Can anyone control AI?  —  By Mark Scott, Gian Volpicelli, Mohar Chatterjee, Vincent Manancourt,

2024-01-26
So typical of this @FTC to launch a 6(b) “investigation” into generative AI business arrangements while having a panel that has already judged the companies guilty. They literally don't care how it looks.
2024-01-26 View on X
New York Times

The US FTC opens a probe into investments by Microsoft in OpenAI and by Amazon and Google in Anthropic, to assess how the deals alter the competitive landscape

The agency plans to scrutinize Microsoft, Amazon and Google for their investments in the A.I. start-ups OpenAI and Anthropic.

2023-05-31
Have so many smart people ever so emphatically said so little? “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.” That's it, that's the statement. https://twitter.com/...
2023-05-31 View on X
New York Times

OpenAI and DeepMind executives, Geoffrey Hinton, and 350+ others sign a statement saying “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority”

and says computer scientists need ethics training Brian Fung / CNN : AI industry and researchers sign statement warning of ‘extinction’ risk Alka Jain / Livemint : Industry leaders...